Hailstorms can occur in the Sahara Desert due to sudden atmospheric changes. These rare phenomena create striking images over ...

Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the ...

Sahara Desert teemed with life during African Humid Period. Scientists have reconstructed the genetic profile of a population ...